Re: [gentoo-user] Only 4 of 8 GB usable

2014-05-22 Thread covici
Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: wraeth wrote: On 22/05/14 07:37, Alex Schuster wrote: Does this ring any bells? I'm out of ideas. Except than pulling out the 4 GB, or trying another mainboard. Just a quick suggestion to help rule it out: try booting a LiveCD or other

Re: [gentoo-user] Only 4 of 8 GB usable

2014-05-22 Thread Daniel Troeder
Am 21.05.2014 23:37, schrieb Alex Schuster: Hi there! So I installed another 4 GiB RAM into a Gentoo amd64 system that had 4 GiB already. But it still sees only 4 GiB, not 8 GiB: leela ~ # uname -a Linux leela 3.6.11-gentoo #3 SMP Mon Feb 4 15:37:48 CET 2013 x86_64 AMD A6-3500 APU with

Re: [gentoo-user] Only 4 of 8 GB usable

2014-05-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 21 May 2014 20:38:15 -0500, Dale wrote: Isn't there a kernel setting that cuts off after 4GBs or something? I seem to recall having to turn that on at some point. I would think this would be on by default but . . . . That's only in 32 bit kernels AFAIR. The live CD idea is a good

Re: [gentoo-user] Only 4 of 8 GB usable

2014-05-22 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 21 May 2014 20:38:15 -0500, Dale wrote: Isn't there a kernel setting that cuts off after 4GBs or something? I seem to recall having to turn that on at some point. I would think this would be on by default but . . . . That's only in 32 bit kernels AFAIR. The

[gentoo-user] Only 4 of 8 GB usable

2014-05-21 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi there! So I installed another 4 GiB RAM into a Gentoo amd64 system that had 4 GiB already. But it still sees only 4 GiB, not 8 GiB: leela ~ # uname -a Linux leela 3.6.11-gentoo #3 SMP Mon Feb 4 15:37:48 CET 2013 x86_64 AMD A6-3500 APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux leela

Re: [gentoo-user] Only 4 of 8 GB usable

2014-05-21 Thread wraeth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 22/05/14 07:37, Alex Schuster wrote: Does this ring any bells? I'm out of ideas. Except than pulling out the 4 GB, or trying another mainboard. Just a quick suggestion to help rule it out: try booting a LiveCD or other one-size-fits-most

Re: [gentoo-user] Only 4 of 8 GB usable

2014-05-21 Thread Dale
wraeth wrote: On 22/05/14 07:37, Alex Schuster wrote: Does this ring any bells? I'm out of ideas. Except than pulling out the 4 GB, or trying another mainboard. Just a quick suggestion to help rule it out: try booting a LiveCD or other one-size-fits-most medium and seeing if your full

Re: [gentoo-user] Only 4 of 8 GB usable

2014-05-21 Thread wraeth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 22/05/14 09:20, wraeth wrote: Just a quick suggestion to help rule it out: try booting a LiveCD or other one-size-fits-most medium and seeing if your full memory is registering there. If it is, then it's not a hardware malfunction; if it